Banana-crate.



No. 694,845'. Patented Mar. 4,1902.

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BANANA-CRATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,845, dated March 4,1902. Application filed November 19, 1801. Serial No. $2,814. (Nomodel.)

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES A. DoUD, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse and State ofWisconsin, have made a certain new and useful Invention inBanana-Crates; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, suchas will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the invention, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my crate. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalcentral section of the same. Fig: 3 is a detail perspective view oflower head e and lower hoop c. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view ofthe upper hoop c and wrap f.

The invention has relation to shipping-cases for bunches of bananas andother articles; and it consists in the novel construction andcombinations of parts,as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings the letter o, designates a crate-frame,which consists of the separated vertical slats which extend straightfrom top to bottom. y y

h b represent the exterior hoops, and c c the interior hoops, the latterbeing respectively arranged near the upper and lower ends of frame. s

Between the slats and the inner hoops is the cylinder of pasteboard d,which is tacked to the frame. This paper cylinder is braced outward bythe inner hoops c c. Around the lower inner hoop c is attached themarginal portion of the lower burlap head e, which is suiciently slackto be concave and yet short, extending about to the level of the bottomend of the crate-frame when distended by the stem of the bunch ofbananas. Around the upper inner hoop is attached the lower. marginalportion of the upper burla-p head or wrap f,

which is open at the side g and top h and is designed when the bunch ofbananas is in position within the casete be gathered together and tiedsecurely by means of a wrapping of twine, so as to hold the bunch offruitsecurely within the encasement. This paperlined and bnrlap-headedcrate is designed to adord a compact shipping-case for the fruit whichhas a eommodious size of interior chamber compared to the exterior sizeof the crate and is designed to present no hard angles or corners liableto cause bruisin g. The burlapheads allow free access of air and beingxed to the upper and lower inner hoops hold the ends of the bunch in astable manner. ally the paper lining-cylinder is made short at its lowerend, so that it does not extend down to the bottom exterior hoop, thisconstruction being preferred in order to afford a free opening k'fortheair at the lower end when the case is standing upright on its lower end.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

A shipping-case for bananas consisting in I nanas, and the upperinterior hoop having the top head of burlap or the like secured theretofor covering in the bananas, subst`an= tially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. DOUD Witnesses:

ALEXANDER B. MALL, FRANK WINTER.

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